[Samba] Joining a samba member server using offline join or a RODC

Uri Simchoni urisimchoni at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 11:58:37 MDT 2015


Thanks for the quick response!

Uri.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Denis Cardon
<denis.cardon at tranquil-it-systems.fr> wrote:
> Hi Uri,
>
>
>> I would like to join a samba 4.2.0 file server sitting in a branch
>> office, with connection only to a RODC (and only the RODC can talk to
>> the RWDC). Was wondering what's the workflow for doing this in samba.
>>
>> For Windows machines, Microsoft seems to have planned two workflows for
>> this:
>>
>> 1. Use new  flag to NetJoinDomain() API to join using the RODC
>>
<snip>
>>
>> 2. Offline domain join
<snip>
>> joining server.
>
>
> the offline join scenario works fine with a samba4 setup. You just have to
> join a temporary VM with the remote server name on the hub site, rsync the
> private directory and smb.conf to your remote server and preload the machine
> account on the rodc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Denis
>
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Uri.
>>
>
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